Assessment of femoral anteversion in children with cerebral palsy: accuracy of the trochanteric prominence angle test.

R. Davids, Jon; Benfanti, Paul; W. Blackhurst, Dawn; L. Allen, Benjamin

doi:10.1097/00004694-200203000-00007

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Assessment of femoral anteversion in children with cerebral palsy: accuracy of the trochanteric prominence angle test.

Published in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics • Mar 1, 2002

Authors:

Jon R. Davids

Paul Benfanti

Dawn W. Blackhurst

Abstract

Clinical assessment of femoral anteversion (FA) in children with cerebral palsy (CP) is frequently determined by the trochanteric prominence angle test (TPAT). Limited three-dimensional volumetric imaging by axial tomography of the femur was performed before surgery for 35 hips in 20 children with C...

Subject

Medicine

Femur

Femoral neck

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